e-Clippings *Late November and Early December*

"There are seven sins in the world: wealth without work, pleasure
without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without
morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and
politics without principle." Mahatma Gandhi

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Wow. Haven't been gone that long in a while. I never know where
to start after being gone so long. I do apologize for the downtime;
massive real-world responsibilities intruded there for a couple of
weeks but I think the pressure is lifting a bit now. Still
continuing to work on building out a mobile computing lab here at ADL
and helping with out research into Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming
(MMOG). Finally getting paid to play games! Anyway, much is going on
at the nexus of technology and learning – my latest snapshot is
below.
Good to be back.
Mark Oehlert, Editor
P.S. I do wonder though when membership on the list goes up when I
miss a couple of dates? ;-)
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For you Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza or other end-of-the year type
celebrations:
Circuits Holiday Issue
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2002/11/21/technolo
gy/circuits/index.html

The Ultimate Geek Gift Guide: 2002 WIRED/TOOLS
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/gift.html
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Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002
by Lawrence Lessig: 08/15/2002. Here is the complete transcript of
Lawrence's keynote presentation made on July 24, 2002.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html
--I have also copied this into a Word doc and uploaded it to the
eClippings's site at http://groups.yahoo.com/g
roup/eClippings/files/free%20culture%20-%20lessig.doc
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U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher
http://www.house.gov/boucher/internet.htm
Friend to all who want to see the Internet/Web retain even some
modicum of freedom!
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NEWS

ADL release new implementation guide, conformance test suite almost
final version 1.3 of SCORM: Wilbert Kraan, CETIS staff: December 02,
2002
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20021202160428

Microsoft Warns of Windows, Explorer Security Hole
Reuters: Friday, November 22, 2002; 5:22 AM
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. on Thursday issued a "critical"
security bulletin which said the company has discovered a security
hole in its software which would let cyber-attackers run programs on
Web servers and computers in homes and businesses.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24700-2002Nov22.html

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**Hard to imagine – students learning…
Students Learning to Evade Moves to Protect Media Files
November 27, 2002: By AMY HARMON
As colleges across the country seek to stem the torrent of
unauthorized digital media files flowing across their campus computer
networks, students are devising increasingly sophisticated
countermeasures to protect their free supply of copyrighted
entertainment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/27/technology/27SWAP.html

E-learning fails to make the grade
Monday, November 25 2002
by Matthew Clark
http://www.enn.ie/news.html?code=8833507

How Will Technology Change Research Universities?
Friday, November 22, at 3 p.m., U.S. Eastern time
How dramatically will technology change research universities? How
should university officials prepare for these changes?
http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2002/11/research/

Sexy e-learning doesn't work
By Rachel Fielding [25-11-2002]
Current projects are failing to deliver, says HR expert
E-learning projects are failing to deliver because companies are too
focused on 'sexy' content rather than improving the learning process.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137088

Recording Industry Plans to Accelerate
Complaints About Illegal File Sharing
Monday, December 2, 2002: By SCOTT CARLSON
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/12/2002120202t.htm

Innovation Now!
Conventional wisdom says to get back to basics.
Conventional wisdom says to cut costs.
Conventional wisdom is doomed.
The winners are the innovators who are making bold thinking an
everyday part of doing business. By Gary Hamel from FC issue 65, page
115
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/65/innovation.html

Hearing today in Kazaa suit
Dec 2, 2002 4:56 AM PT
Lawyers for the music and movie industries gathered on Sunday ahead
of a hearing in a copyright infringement case against popular
file-sharing services, Kazaa, Grokster and Morpheus MusicCity, now
named Streamcast, industry trade group officials said. On Monday,
U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Wilson in Los Angeles will hear
summary judgment oral arguments in the case brought by the Recording
Industry Association of America, the Motion Picture Association of
America and the National Music Publishers' Association against the
music services. The suit was first filed in October 2001. –Reuters
http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1106-975670.html

Gerstner to Be Carlyle Group Chairman: Former IBM Chief Brings Long
List of Contacts to Private Equity Firm New chairman
Louis V. Gerstner Jr. has agreed to commit about 20 percent of his
time to Carlyle Group, the company said. (File Photo/AP)
By Greg Schneider, Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 22, 2002; Page E01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23277-2002Nov21.html

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Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet
By JOHN MARKOFF: A Pentagon research agency rejected tagging Internet
data to make anonymous use of some parts of the Internet impossible.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html

RIM stock sinks on U.S. patent verdict
Reuters, 11.22.02, 9:59 AM ET
OTTAWA, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd. <RIM.TO> shares
took a sharp hit in early trade on Friday, dropping more than 13
percent after a U.S. jury ruled it must pay $23.1 million in a patent
infringement suit.
http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2002/11/22/rtr804000.html

Total Info System Totally Touchy: By Ryan Singel
02:00 AM Dec. 02, 2002 PT
Can a massive database of information on Americans really
preempt terrorist attacks? That's what industry experts are asking
about the Pentagon's proposed Total Information Awareness System,
which, according to the proposal, would aggregate on "an
unprecedented scale" credit card, medical, school and travel records.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56620,00.html

Dear Santa: You've Got E-Mail: By Steve Kettmann
02:00 AM Nov. 30, 2002 PT
BERLIN -- They pile up year-round at the North Pole post office:
letters to Santa from all over the world. But more and more kids are
opting to e-mail their Christmas wishes instead. "You see all the
different mail coming in here, and you wonder how," said Donna
Matthews, manager of the North Pole branch of the post office, on
Candy Cane Lane. This is where letters end up when you write "Santa,
North Pole" as the address -- some 500,000 a year.
http://www.wired.com/news/holidays/0,1882,56609,00.html

Sklyarov gets US visa -DMCA trial to kick off
By John Leyden
Posted: 28/11/2002 at 16:47 GMT
The first criminal prosecution under the controversial Digital
Millennium Copyright Act is to begin in San Jose next week after a
visa was finally granted to Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov and
Alex Katalov, the chief executive of his former employers ElcomSoft.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28352.html


TRENDS SECTION

Mobile Usage to Double by 2007:
3G Networks, gadget phones, and longer-lived batteries will lure
users, Ericsson exec says. Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service
Friday, November 29, 2002
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,107298,tk,dn112902X,00.asp

THE INTERNET DEBACLE - AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
Originally written for Performing Songwriter Magazine, May 2002
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html

From Weblog to Moblog
By Justin Hall, Nov 21 2002
UPDATED: What happens when weblogs go mobile? Searching reality for
friends and information.
http://www.thefeature.com/index.jsp?url=article.jsp?pageid=24815

In Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, Howard Rheingold, author
of Tools for Thought and The Virtual Community, explains how advanced
wireless communication technologies are beginning to cause
fundamental shifts in the way we relate to others, and to the world
around us. Howard explores how devices like cellphones, PDAs, and
pagers support cooperative or "mob" action that can be either
beneficial or destructive.
Check out the conversation with Howard.
http://engaged.well.com/engaged/engaged.cgi?c=inkwell.vue&f=0&t=166

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What Would Dewey Do? Libraries Grapple
With Internet By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
PHOENIX, Nov. 27 — In its six years of service, the central
Phoenix library has become a favorite destination for thousands of
residents who have no other access to computers and the Internet. On
any given day, separate areas for children, teenagers and adults
— with 65 computers in all — swarm with users, clicking away
at research, games, music, e-mail messages and chat rooms.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/02/national/02LIBR.html

Extended Faceted Taxonomies for Web Catalogs
by Yannis Tzitzikas, Nicolas Spyratos, Panos Constantopoulos and
Anastasia Analyti
ERCIM News No. 51, October 2002
Which would be easier to remember: one thousand individual terms or
three facets of ten terms each?
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw51/tzitzikas.html

Faceted Metadata Search and Browse
http://www.searchtools.com/info/faceted-metadata.html

The Semantic Web lifts off: ERCIM News No. 51, October 2002
by Tim Berners-Lee and Eric Miller
Many researchers at ERCIM Institutes are aware that this is an
exciting time to be involved in work done at the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C). Scalable Vector Graphics, Web Services, and the
Semantic Web are but a few of the W3C Activities attracting media
attention. This article focuses on the W3C's Semantic Web Activity
and recent developments in the Semantic Web community. Although it is
difficult to predict the impact of such a far-reaching technology,
current implementation and signs of adoption are encouraging and
developments in future research areas are extremely promising.
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw51/berners-lee.html

The Making of a Policy Gadfly: Seeing crucial computer-science work
threatened, a Princeton professor takes on Congress
From the issue dated November 29, 2002: By ANDREA L. FOSTER
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i14/14a02701.htm

MIT's Open Window: Putting course materials online, the university
faces high Expectations: From the issue dated December 6, 2002
By FLORENCE OLSEN
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i15/15a03101.htm

Mike Langberg: Bold technology predictions for 2012
By Mike Langberg: Posted on Sat, Nov. 30, 2002
Mercury News
Smart devices that talk to each other without human intervention,
store merchandise that rings itself up for purchase and machines that
finally understand the spoken word are just some of the new
technologies awaiting us in the year 2012. On Monday I gave myself a
``B'' for my 1992 predictions of what life would be like in 2002.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/business/4635704.htm

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Video Games Make Big Leap to Small Phone
Screens By REUTERS Filed at 3:06 p.m. ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The next time your cell phone rings, it may
not
be simply an incoming call but a hot, new video game that has
finished downloading.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-telecoms-games.html

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The Video Games of 2002
November 21, 2002: By CHARLES HEROLD
THIS was the year three next-generation game consoles went head to
head. With Sony's PlayStation 2 easily holding first place,
Nintendo's GameCube and Microsoft's Xbox are battling it out for
second. Xbox has the most impressive technology, but the cheaper
GameCube is being given a push by the number of quality games
Nintendo is releasing this season. Regardless of platform, technology
is giving us games with gorgeously detailed graphics. They were just
as much fun to play 10 years ago, but now they're so much more fun to
look at.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/21/technology/circuits/21game.html

The Games Wal-Mart Doesn't Play
By Sandy Brundage : 02:00 AM Dec. 02, 2002 PT
Two years ago, a video game called Giants: Citizen Kabuto
underwent plastic surgery right before its release. The blood -- shed
liberally by characters in the action-strategy game -- was changed
from red to green, and a female character suddenly sported a bikini
top after appearing topless in pre-publication screenshots. These
changes were made to satisfy content restrictions imposed by
Wal-Mart, the nation's largest mass retailer of video games.
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,55955,00.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

What is NAND Memory, Like That of the New HP iPAQ h1910?
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/articles.php?id=52
27&sid=81edea4cb00893475890779e010b91f8&PHPSESSID=
0bc4fa81be9cd2d5478449ef56adefd3

Toshiba Launches Hopbit: Innovative Mobile Pocket Server Combines
Bluetooth(TM) Connectivity with High Capacity Data Storage
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2002_10/pr0902.htm

Welcome back, Ricochet: High-speed wireless network returning —
slowly
http://www.msnbc.com/news/840116.asp?0dm=N12LT&cp1=1


SECURITY SECTION


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

David Skyrme authored this great piece, identifying 12 kinds of
Knowledge Workers: http://radio.weblogs.com/010784
6/categories/brainToBrain/2002/11/23.html

"The expert - you have expertise in a domain of knowledge or a
particular skill. You enjoy honing your knowledge and exercising your
core skills. You are the recognized "expert" and stay with your
choosen knowledge domain over many years.

Knowledge analyst - you love assimilating knowledge from many
sources. You have many of the attributes of the expert (but are
perhaps not as self-opinionated or self-promotionalist) and also of
the packager. Others respect your views and like your 'rational'
knowledge to support their arguments.

Knowledge leader - you have a broad area of knowledge and build
bridges between knowledge (and people) in different domains. You are
a generalist, not a specialist. You see the big picture
and how knowledge supports organizational objective. You're the
future CKO or CEO.

Knowledge networker - you are a knowledge broker and connector. You
connect people to people and people to knowledge. A hybrid of
expertise and leadership - you're scope is not too broad
and you have a large address book. You don't know all the answers
yourself, but you know a person who does.

Knowledge custodian - you like everything to be in its proper place.
You love classifying knowledge and organizing content into
taxonomies. You get upset if knowledge renegades upset the
system. You're probably the knowledge centre manager.

Knowledge creator - you're an ideas person. Always thinking of new
things to do, you never seem to have time to see them through to
implementation. Your thinking goes off in several
directions but you do come up with breakthrough ideas and innovative
approaches.

Knowledge entrepreneur - you may not have the best ideas yourself,
but you do recognize those that have potential. You are the bridge
between the creator and the packager. You have a
good story to tell and are committed to making a difference.

Knowledge packager - if you didn't do knowledge work you would
probably be an engineer or mechanic. You assemble all the knowledge
components to make something worthwhile. You help
knowledge creators realize their dreams.

Knowledge visualizer - you like pictures, so you get away from those
boring bulleted Powerpoint slide shows. You make your points in
images, diagrams and perhaps even cartoons and music.

Knowledge activist - you are committed to a cause and will marshal
the knowledge you need to support your case. You can also be a
knowledge maverick, questioning the status quo and

raising doubts in others about the efficacy of their hard-won
knowledge. Although an irritant to the powers that be, it is often
you who initiates change.

Knowledge seeker - ever curious, you are always asking "why" and
seeking new knowledge. Even after you retire, you will go on
knowledge delivery cruises to new exotic locations. The pursuit
of knowledge for your personal fulfilment is your key driver. You
couldn't care less if it's useful to others or not, but are always
willing to share it enthusiastically.

Storyteller - you cut into the bullshit and encapsulate knowledge
into highly memorable stories. You have a strong imagination and look
for analogies and metaphors. The fact that storytelling is
now a tool for corporate knowledge management means that you should
have a bright career ahead - even if you did get turned down for the
Edinburgh Festival fringe!"
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